Chennai: Members of the public caught a mobile phone snatcher red handed and assaulted him before handing him over to the police at Anna Nagar.
According to police, Naseed Ali (32) worked for a popular jewellery store at Anna Nagar. At 12.30 am he was walking on Tenth Main Road and speaking over the phone when a man on a two-wheeler snatched his phone and fled.
Ali raised an alarm and passersby caught the thief and beat him up. Police who arrived at the spot identified him as Purushothaman (21) of Kotturpuram. The phone worth Rs 18,000 was recovered from him. Police seized a two-wheeler from him and remanded him.
In a similar case, a man was arrested for carrying out mobile phone snatching at Nelson Manickam Road.